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SHOW RESULTS - 11/16 WWE in Minehead, U.K.: A.J. Lee wrestles night after collapsing, ring announcer Chimel delivers Stunner, Punk & Heyman routine closes tour

Nov 16, 2013 - 7:55:23 PM
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WWE European Tour results
November 16, 2013
Minehead, England
Report by Tristian Hayes, PWTorch correspondent


Attendance was 5,000 - sell-out.

(1) Prime Time Players beat Hunico & Camacho, who I had forgotten are still with the company since I don't watch Superstars anymore.

(2) Great Khali beat Jinder Mahal.

(3) Bella Twins beat Divas champion A.J. Lee & Tamina. A.J. showed no ill-effects from fainting the night before in London.

(4) IC champion Curtis Axel beat R-Truth to retain the Intercontinental Title. Truth was hugely over. After the match, Truth hit his finisher on Axel to send the crowd happy into intermission.

Leading into intermission, ring announcer Tony Chimel was interrupted by Axel as he was shilling the tour programme available at the merch stand and proclaimed himself "still your Intercontinental champion, Curtis Axel." Chimel then started to plug the tour tee also available at the merch stand when Axel came out again and this time demanded that Chimel announce him as still IC champ. But, he was met with a boot to the gut and Stone Cold Stunner by Chimel! As Axel was escorted away from the ring, Chimel got back to the task at hand and was this time interrupted/rewarded with another run-in by one of the Bellas, who planted a big kiss on him.

(5) The Usos beat 3MB members Heath Slater & Drew McIntyre.

(6) Ryback beat Justin Gabriel.

Paul Heyman came out and did the same routine as the previous nights. Before C.M. Punk came out and put a bearing on him with a Kendo stick, Heyman was hilarious and one of the few actual highlights if the night. Then, the Wyatt Family came out and double-teamed Punk as Bray Wyatt watched. Daniel Bryan then evened up the odds to set up the tag team main event...

(7) C.M. Punk & Daniel Bryan beat The Wyatts to send the crowd home happy.

I personally thought this was a pretty poor line-up with the majority of top and upper mid-card stars on the other show in Vienna such as Cena, Del Rio, Big Show, Orton, Miz, Ziggler, Kofi Kingston, etc. Had I known the line-up beforehand, I may very well of not bothered coming. The whole idea these days is that WWE itself is the draw and not the actual wrestlers, but with the exception of Punk, Bryan, and Ryback I'd wager at least half of the crew won't be on the books with WWE anymore in as little as three years time.

[Torch art credit Grant Gould (c) PWTorch.com]


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